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  2. THE BRITISH CROWN.

    Among the many questions raised in connection with the sickness of Queen Victoria (says an "Ex-Attache") was that concerning the succession to the British Crown. ...

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  3. [?]OMMY ATKINS ON LORD ROBERTS.

    What 'e does not know o' war, Gen'ral Bobs, You can arst the shop next door— Can't they, Bobs? ...

    Article : 82 words
  4. GENERAL INFORMATION.

    Of the population of Spain, more than 50,000 are gipsies. Only 116 divorces have been granted in Canada during the last twenty years. ...

    Article : 871 words
  5. THE DYING CHARGER.

    [A plea for the extension of the benefits of the Geneva Convention to those relieving wounded horses on the battlefield.] ...

    Article : 246 words
  6. HUMOROUS COLUMN.

    At a smoking concert the other evening a popular vocalist was called to give a song, and having furnished the chairman with the title of the song he proposed to sing, that ...

    Article : 150 words
  7. ROBERT BURNS AS A PATRIOT.

    Burns's Jaconinism, so long as the French Republicans "minded their own business." and claimed the right to manage their own affairs, was fervid. But when it became ...

    Article : 732 words
  8. A Queer Catch.

    When the horses of our troops were turned out to water, they had their headstalls and halters taken off, so that, if the enemy suddenly appeared and tried ...

    Article : 176 words
  9. A HELMET OF DEATH.

    Whether or not the stroke of the guillotine causes instant death, it is more than likely that the raising of the question by Dr. Cinel will banish the machine which owes ...

    Article : 251 words
  10. The Parson Disturbed.

    A good story of old days in Lincolnshire has recently been published. In the old parish churches in the shire a bass-viol was procured to help the choir. ...

    Article : 253 words
  11. STORY OF LORD KITCHENER.

    A man who knows Kitchener well was telling me the other day (says a writer in the "Weekly Telegraph") some characteristic stories of the hero of Khartoum. ...

    Article : 228 words
  12. Bloomer Costume.

    It was forty-nine years the 23rd of last July since the inventor of this style of dress, Mrs. Amelia Bloomer, the editor of a temperance journal in New ...

    Article : 261 words
  13. MET THEIR MATCH.

    Mr. Rockingham: No, sir, I cannot consent to let my daughter become the wife of a man who is an wild as you are. Mr. Honeywell: How do you know I am ...

    Article : 620 words
  14. OVERHEARD AT A RAILWAY STATION.

    Lady: You clumsy rascal, why don't you look where you arc walking? Couldn't yon see my foot?" Newsboy: How could I see yer fat whin ye ...

    Article : 35 words
  15. AMBER MINES OF BURMAH.

    In Burma h amber is found in a region difficult of access and jealously guarded by thee who have every interest in keeping their secret. ...

    Article : 199 words
  16. RATHER COOL REQUEST.

    During the Christmas holidays a country visitor had been out late enjoying himself, and, owing to his muddled condition, forgot the street where he was stopping. ...

    Article : 51 words
  17. Ye Advertising Clerk.

    Fussy Man (hurrying into newspaper office): 'I've lost my spectacles somewhere, and I want to advertise for them, but I cannot see to write without ...

    Article : 130 words
  18. MISAPPREHENDED.

    "I paid her," said the imaginative young man, the highest compliment one human being could pay another." "What did you say to her?" asked the ...

    Article : 78 words
  19. General Gatacre.

    Of General Gatacre, it is said that he does not know what it is to be tired. The first deed that gained him a name for marvellous endurance was, says the ...

    Article : 238 words
  20. TIRED OF BEING IN PRINT.

    "Mr. Smithers," said his wife, "if I remember rightly you have often said that you disliked to see a a woman constantly getting herself into print?"' ...

    Article : 128 words
  21. MEN OF WHOM WOMEN WEARY.

    The man who wants to argue everything. The man who beats a hoe or a dog. The man who never stays at home in the evening. ...

    Article : 156 words
  22. He Hadn't Been Introduced.

    A good-natured young fellow was at a rustic picnic, and rashly spoke to a young lady without the formality of an introduction. He happened to see a fat ...

    Article : 132 words
  23. EARS FOR MUSHROOMS.

    An amusing story is told of Sir Battle Frere, when he was staying at Zanzibar. He was so unfortunate as to lose hi way "up country" one day, and took refuge in a ...

    Article : 195 words
  24. How a Cold is Caught.

    The various ways in which a cold may be brought on are thus described by Dr. J. H. Kellogg: "A little knifeablade of air growing in through a crack in a ...

    Article : 196 words
  25. FACTS ABOUT WATER.

    There are some strange features about water. For instance, the more muscular a person is, the more able to take care of himself on land, the harder it is for him to ...

    Article : 136 words
  26. Who Sews the Cover On?

    'Grandpapa, does hens make their own eggs ?' 'Yes, indeed they do, Harry. 'And do they always put the yolk in the ...

    Article : 93 words
  27. ON APPROVAL.

    A clergyman in one of the Southern States of America recently experienced this. He had united a man and woman in the bonds of holy matrimony, and he duly received wha ...

    Article : 105 words
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